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Public key cryptography helps make information and communication technology (ICT) systems more secure. Public key infrastructures (PKIs) enable the use of public key cryptography in open computer networks, in particular on the Internet. In this chapter, we use characteristic examples of Internet applications to illustrate potential threats against ICT and describe important security goals that can be achieved using public key cryptography and PKI. We discuss the basics of public key cryptography and explain how this technology supports the security goals explained in this chapter. Finally, we present the challenges that lead to the need for PKI. For more details on public key cryptography see [4].
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Buchmann, J.A., Karatsiolis, E., Wiesmaier, A. (2013). The Purpose of PKI. In: Introduction to Public Key Infrastructures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40657-7_1
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